9:00AM
On-Time-RX beeps reminding me to take the rest of the morning meds.

10:00AM
An alarm goes off. I need to check with the caterer for an event for my professional association. I log in some dates from an email I got from my daughter into DateBk5. My work commitments are entered in a bold red font, personal ones in teal. Items pertaining to my husband are in blue. Each daughter has a color assigned to her; I use her school colors. Appointments pertaining to my parents are in another color.

11:45AM
A text message comes through on my mobile. It sounds like a siren. It's from my college freshmen daughter asking if she has money. I check her account balance, transfer some money and sent a reply to her text message telling her "Yes, you have money."

I'm not a fan of text messaging. My fingers aren't agile enough. I feel the same way about thumb keyboards on handhelds. I usually respond to text messages using the iPaq and Sprint card if I'm not at my desk. If I'm near a computer, I go to the text-messaging site for my wireless carrier and respond.

Since I get frequent text messages from the kids, I marked this site as a favorite so it appears on my IE toolbar. I'm often at other company sites, so my family tends to call my mobile phone rather than my work phone. With custom ring tones, I designate a unique tone for each child. My husband, sister and my mother have ring tones unique to them. Without looking at my phone display, I know who's calling me.

12:00 noon
An alarm goes off telling me it's noon and I should start to think about lunch. I take a blood sugar, log it into to GlucoPilot and decide I can wait another half hour to eat. The other cubicle dwellers in my office are all techno geeks, so no one is bothered by all the ringing, buzzing, and chirping from each others' gadgets.

12:30PM
Time for lunch. An On-Time-RX alarm goes off and I grab my meds. I slip my CLIE and moblie phone into my Levenger case and head to lunch.

2:00PM
I'm working on a project and decide I need some music. I exchange the menmory stick that holds programs and drop in a 128MB one with about 2 hours of music and plug in my headset. I make a note to buy one of the new 256MB Memory Sticks.

I take a quick call from my nephew who tells me that he's loaded 267 songs on his new 10GB iPod and barely made a dent in the memory. I get good "aunt points" for his early Christmas present.

Audible.com, which I belong to had a really great member special on refurbished iPods. I took advantage of that. One Christmas present already out of the way! The iPods are so cool, but I've managed to restrain myself. With both of my handhelds having MP3 capabilities, an iPod would be overkill -- even for me.

4:00PM
I sync my iPaq to reconcile it and my Lotus Notes calendar and mail databases. I then do a incremental backup on the iPaq. I usually don't have any problems keeping both handhelds current. At work, most of the appointments I receive come via email, so they automatically are added to my Lotus Notes calendar. I tend to enter them immediately into the CLIE. If not, I can beam appointments between the two platforms. I default to the CLIE; its calendar is always correct, since I take it everywhere.